East DRC city timidly comes back to life under M23 control | World News
Two bodies lay on a Bukavu road, lynched by a mob accusing them of taking part in the widespread pillaging of the eastern DR Congo city as it fell to pro-Rwandan forces. East DRC city timidly comes back to life under M23 control Following the city’s seizure by the Rwanda-backed M23 Movement, the crackle of bullets gave way to the sound of sirens on Monday as ambulances made their way to treat those wounded in the violence. The capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province, now under the M23’s total control, fell with next to no resistance from the fleeing Congolese army. Thousands of people have fled the region to neighbouring Burundi. Many of those who stayed behind were keen to clap the M23 as columns of fighters entered Bukavu on Sunday morning. “You can walk past them and they won’t arrest you or ask you for any identification,” said resident Bonaventure Bene. Bukavu was the latest area to fall into the hands of the M23, which in recent months has seized …

